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...years: "What would happen if I put in a long-distance call from my desk right now? No answer? No such number? No such country?" Highest Rank. No such country. The present has deservedly rewarded Nabokov, now 67, whose novels in English-The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire-have placed him in the highest rank of contemporary writers. These books stimulated a demand for the au thor's total work, so that most of his earlier Russian novels have now completed the journey into translation...
There they stood, ranging on up to 6½ ft. tall, bulging with the kind of muscles it takes to bend a railroad spike between thumb and forefinger. Their team had already won its fifth National Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride...
This time, Governor George Wallace is already fielding requests from applicants anxious for even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional...
Like most diplomats. Brown has more than enough opportunities to bend an elbow-and he can prove irrepressible when doing so. His friends insist, however, that tales of his tippling are exaggerated by the British press, and that his unorthodox ways and occasional rudeness of manner are small prices to pay for the integrity and insight with which he tackles his job. Brown is awed by few people, not even by the royal family. When he encountered Princess Margaret at a recent party greeting other ladies with regal little kisses, he asked if he could have one too. Replied...
...that Kassanda finds hardest to handle is the use of what he calls the "secret cavities" of the human body. Three weeks ago, he caught six smugglers - four men and two women - loaded with diamonds privately concealed. So it was that last week one John Wina was asked to bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina's shrill protests...